cable
Traveling zigzag
Zigzag voyageur · Zigzag viajero
A single 2-stitch strand snaking over a purl background, one step on every right-side row: the basis of free-flowing lines on a yoke or a front.
- 8 sts
- 12 rows
- Level
- Intermediate
- Width
- -5 %
- 2/1 right purl cross : Slip 1 st to cable needle, hold in back; k2; then p1 from cable needle.
- 2/1 left purl cross : Slip 2 sts to cable needle, hold in front; p1; then k2 from cable needle.
Written rows
Worked flat, over a multiple of 8 stitches. Odd rows are read on the right side, even rows on the wrong side.
- Row 1 (RS)p4, 2/1 RPC, p1
- Row 2 (WS)k2, p2, k4
- Row 3 (RS)p3, 2/1 RPC, p2
- Row 4 (WS)k3, p2, k3
- Row 5 (RS)p2, 2/1 RPC, p3
- Row 6 (WS)k4, p2, k2
- Row 7 (RS)p2, 2/1 LPC, p3
- Row 8 (WS)k3, p2, k3
- Row 9 (RS)p3, 2/1 LPC, p2
- Row 10 (WS)k2, p2, k4
- Row 11 (RS)p4, 2/1 LPC, p1
- Row 12 (WS)k1, p2, k5
Repeat these 12 rows to the height you want.